It’s because to most people he appears to know what he is talking about. Once he gets into a field one knows something about, it’s clear he is just bullshitting constantly.
He tried to convince the world that his last exploded rocket was an outstanding success.
But we look at the damaged launchpad and now the delayed Moon project because of the explosion and we who know better understand that he is also an idiot with rockets.
Do you really think SpaceX is on schedule to deliver a Moon Lander or launch vehicle by 2025?
Elon Musk is a master of marketing. It will do you well to understand what mental-trick he played here. When Elon Musk spends a $Billion failing at a hard problem, he looks like a genius even though everything fails.
But when Elon Musk fails at a task that everyone thinks is an “easy” or “solved” problem IE: Hey Elon / SpaceX, are you actually going to deliver on NASA’s contract in 2024? Oh wait, you aren’t, lets delay the “Return to the Moon” project to 2025. Oohhhh wait, you’re rocket is still exploding on the launchpad? We’re going to have to delay longer… aren’t we?
Now we see he’s an idiot. Because SpaceX/Elon has made the mistake of accepting a real world job with real world schedules and consequences. You can’t just fail like an idiot on a task everyone knows is doable (IE: return to the moon project).
So what’s the lesson? Spend other people’s money (Lol, Elon is spending SpaceX’s money, not his own $Billion) on failures to look busy. Even if you know it won’t work, pretend your failures are successes, and people will believe you if they think its a hard enough problem. (Ex: rocket explodes, declare a success even if it delays other projects. Distract people from the slipping schedule).
He was never not an arse though. A walking talking arse. I still don’t get how he’s conned anyone into buying what he’s selling.
It’s because to most people he appears to know what he is talking about. Once he gets into a field one knows something about, it’s clear he is just bullshitting constantly.
I totally agree with most of the criticism, but when he talks about rockets he knows what he’s talking about. Not sure about the rest tho.
Nah.
He tried to convince the world that his last exploded rocket was an outstanding success.
But we look at the damaged launchpad and now the delayed Moon project because of the explosion and we who know better understand that he is also an idiot with rockets.
Do you really think SpaceX is on schedule to deliver a Moon Lander or launch vehicle by 2025?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59231632
Elon Musk is a master of marketing. It will do you well to understand what mental-trick he played here. When Elon Musk spends a $Billion failing at a hard problem, he looks like a genius even though everything fails.
But when Elon Musk fails at a task that everyone thinks is an “easy” or “solved” problem IE: Hey Elon / SpaceX, are you actually going to deliver on NASA’s contract in 2024? Oh wait, you aren’t, lets delay the “Return to the Moon” project to 2025. Oohhhh wait, you’re rocket is still exploding on the launchpad? We’re going to have to delay longer… aren’t we?
Now we see he’s an idiot. Because SpaceX/Elon has made the mistake of accepting a real world job with real world schedules and consequences. You can’t just fail like an idiot on a task everyone knows is doable (IE: return to the moon project).
So what’s the lesson? Spend other people’s money (Lol, Elon is spending SpaceX’s money, not his own $Billion) on failures to look busy. Even if you know it won’t work, pretend your failures are successes, and people will believe you if they think its a hard enough problem. (Ex: rocket explodes, declare a success even if it delays other projects. Distract people from the slipping schedule).
SpaceX brought us rockets that can land.
Tesla brought EV’s to the mainstream when all the other car makers were only producing compliancy cars.
Maybe he was always an arse, but back in 2018, he really did seem to me like the closest thing to a Steve Jobs 2.0 in Silicon Valley.
I bought Tesla stock, and I have sold it all, and made quite a nice buck. No regrets on my side.